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Them Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition…
- In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men…
- The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being…
- ...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at…
- With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant,…
- What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the…
- These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the…
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the…
- The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
- The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all…
- By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it…
- Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them…
- The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not…
- The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a…
- As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from…
- If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when…
- If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them…
- Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from…
- The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the…
- Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
- The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the…
- The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they…
- Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
- Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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